"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."

Since Jennifer has already ably covered shoes, we just need someone to discuss ships and cabbages.

OK.Here's Diogenes:"If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful." To which the courtier replied, "If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live upon cabbage."Ships, anyone?Anyone?

But, I did believe for far too long that the walrus and Puff the magic dragon spoke of ceiling wax.For me it was the Rolling Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown.

When you were a child You were treated kind But you were never brought up right. You were always spoiled with a thousand toys But still you cried all night. Your mother who neglected you Owes a million dollars tax. And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.

You better stop, look around Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your nilne-teenth nervous breakdown.I always pictured a father with a useless (rather than obsolete?) invention trying to wax a ceiling.

Comic sans walks into a bar and starts drinking heavily. The bartender, an empathetic sort, asks if something might be wrong. Comic sans launches into a story about an online posting describing a court ruling that an ex-president can be deposed over a land issue connected with his planned library. He elaborates on the long list of comments to the article which as a group bespeak of widespread lingering hatred toward that president by commenters, Texas citizens mostly, who consider him not just the worst president in history of the galaxy but also the most evil. Others impugn his Texas genuineness, his intelligence, his motives, and one of his two his two alma maters.

The bartender says while pouring another drink, "You make that sound hilarious."

fls, indeed. Some of my favorites also include "motioning" and "moving". They always create this image of a statue of Nemesis slowly moving her arms...although I'm sure they may also have some scatological implications for some.

At the risk of being too logical ;) I will posit that people who write on an alternate page to spell check (like me) are probably having the same problem I’m having getting (or not getting) paragraphs to end properly.

Yup the br tag is the proper way to insert a line break in html. Blogger has just been hiding that fact and auto-replacing carriage returns with the br tag. Now that they've messed up this feature, you can still obtain the desired behavior by manually using the br tag.

I am not quite sure what the big deal is here. We learned from Slick Willie that Presidents can be deposed when it does not involve their official duties. Neither Clinton's sexual harassments, nor Bush's library would count as such.